Easy Baked Beans
HB-12417 · Hand-built original · American
Baked beans simmered with bacon, onion, bell pepper and celery, sweetened with brown sugar and cane syrup and baked until the top caramelizes.
AmericanMain courseGluten-freeDairy-freeEgg-freeHigh Fiber
Main ingredient: beans
Pairs well with: coleslaw, cornbread, potato salad, baked beans
Serving count not stated for this recipe, so quantities are shown as written.
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb thick-cut bacon
- 1/2 small onion, diced
- 1/2 small green bell pepper, diced
- 1 small stalk celery diced (optional)
- 3 lb can baked beans (or two 28oz cans)
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 2 tbsp mustard
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp Steen's syrup (maple syrup or molasses can be used as well)
- 2 tbsp barbecue sauce (preferably tangy)
- A few dashes Worcestershire sauce
Method
- Heat the oven to 350°F.
- Fry the bacon in an oven-safe skillet until crisp, lift it out and chop it, leaving the grease in the pan.
- Cook the onion, bell pepper and celery in the bacon grease until the onion is tender.
- Stir in the baked beans, three quarters of the chopped bacon, the ketchup, mustard, brown sugar, syrup, barbecue sauce and Worcestershire sauce, and mix well.
- Taste and adjust the seasoning, scatter the remaining bacon over the top, and bake for 1 hour at 350°F, until the sauce has thickened and caramelized on top.
Nutrition not computed — no serving count in the source recipe (per-serving values cannot be derived without one).